bookmakertorace track operator
A bookmaker already meets 30% of what the race track operator role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
30%
67.8/ 100
1 Share of the race track operator role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the bookmaker profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A race track operator role treats 3 of its required skills as things a bookmaker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- follow ethical code of conduct of gambling
- maintain customer service
- sports competition information
What stands in the way is 9 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 7 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A race track operator role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a bookmaker background worth leading with.
- already held remove cheating players assisting and caring
- already held sports competition information social sciences, journalism and information
- already held follow ethical code of conduct of gambling assisting and caring
- already held apply statistical analysis techniques information skills
- already held maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held mathematics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
All 7 carried skills, including the 3 the race track operator role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 13 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held analyse tote reports required
- required, not held calculate tote price required
- required, not held process data required
- required, not held operate tote board required
- required, not held maintain equipment required
- required, not held parimutuel betting required
- optional, not held games rules optional
- required, not held configuration of the tote room hardware required
- required, not held horse racing regulation required
- required, not held set up tote board required
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a race track operator role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 analyse tote reports skill · occupation specific
- 02 calculate tote price skill · occupation specific
- 03 configuration of the tote room hardware knowledge · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 7 skills that carry over
- already held follow ethical code of conduct of gambling skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held sports competition information knowledge
- already held apply statistical analysis techniques skill
- already held mathematics knowledge
- already held remove cheating players skill
- already held train employees skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- optional, not held apply knowledge of human behaviour optional
- optional, not held coach employees optional
- optional, not held provide customer follow-up services optional
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held games rules optional
- optional, not held apply knowledge of human behaviour optional
- optional, not held coach employees optional
- optional, not held provide customer follow-up services optional
12 held skills the race track operator role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assist customers skill
- not needed by the target role carry out end of day accounts skill
- not needed by the target role communicate gambling rules skill
- not needed by the target role display betting information skill
- not needed by the target role handle cash flow skill
- not needed by the target role handle customer complaints skill
- not needed by the target role keep task records skill
- not needed by the target role manage teamwork skill
- not needed by the target role maximise sales revenues skill
- not needed by the target role place bets skill
- not needed by the target role plan shifts of employees skill
- not needed by the target role work out odds skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held configuration of the tote room hardware required
- required, not held horse racing regulation required
- required, not held parimutuel betting required
- optional, not held games rules optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.